Warhammer 40000 2nd edition

Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay (WFRP) is the roleplaying version of Games Workshop’s popular Warhammer Fantasy Battles wargame. Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 1st Edition was published in 1986 by Games Workshop themselves and was until 2nd Edition which was published in 2004 by a sub-division of Games Workshop. When Fantasy Flight Games (FFG) took over all non-wargaming tabletop licenses from Games Workshop in 2008, they revamped Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay into their own style. Cubicle 7’s edition of WFRP is more focused on its original roots, updating and expanding on the earlier systems and adding their own feel to the game. Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 4th Edition has just been released by Cubicle 7 and the Core Rulebook is what we’re reviewing here, it’s currently only available in PDF (which is the version we are reviewing here), with physical copies due this month (October 2018). I have personally played all editions of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, starting with … [Read more...] about Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 4th Edition Review

Fantasy Flight Games (FFG) first released the Star Wars X-Wing Miniatures Game in 2012 and quickly captured the market for tabletop skirmish games. Star Wars fans picked it up because the X-Wing Miniatures game feels incredibly Star Wars. Epic space dogfights between X-Wings and Tie Fighters, Slave 1 and the Millennium Falcon, Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker were possible. A tight ruleset, challenging gameplay, and a pokeresque mechanic for movement that required you to read your opponent before committing your own ships movement drew in a huge amount of competitive tabletop gamers from outside Star Wars fandom. The X-Wing Miniatures Game soon became one of the games for competitive play, which was enhanced by FFG’s great organised play systems. Now FFG have released an updated version of the X-Wing Core Set, along with conversion kits for all previously released miniatures to bring the product into their new ruleset, X-Wing 2nd Edition. FFG have stated that the reason for X-Wing … [Read more...] about Star Wars X-Wing Minatures Game 2nd Edition Core Set Review – A Perfect Time to Join the Rebellion

Aliens vs Predator The Hunt Begins 2nd Edition is a board game by Prodos Games and is an interesting example of how board games are taking on elements of other tabletop games. The board game has enough components for one, two, or three players to battle it out using one of the three different forces contained inside. The game is expandable with purchases of other Aliens vs Predator products that then use a wargaming points system to produce the forces you will use in games. However, with purchases of more The Hunt Begins boxes, there is nothing stopping more players joining in with their own forces. We will discuss it in further detail, but each box contains a deck for each faction, and that deck and the miniatures is all that’s really required to field a force, so with multiple box purchases, there would be nothing to stop multiple Alien players fighting each other. The only reason that the TechRaptor Tabletop Team still classifies it as a board game is that range and distance … [Read more...] about Aliens vs Predator The Hunt Begins 2nd Edition Review

King of Tokyo released in 2011 and became and instant hit, winning multiple awards. It spawned a sequel game, King of New York in 2014 (which we reviewed here) and King of Tokyo was updated to 2nd Edition in 2016, which is the edition we’re reviewing here. With Rampage recently in the cinema and some new expansion releases for King of Tokyo and King of New York, the TechRaptor tabletop team thought this would be a great time to update our King of Tokyo review and all its releases. For those interested in the difference between King of Tokyo and King of New York, we will cover those at the end of the review, along with the differences between the 1st and the 2nd Edition of KoT. Over the next few days, we will also review King of Tokyo Power Up! and the Cthulhu Monster Pack, so keep an eye on TR. Two of the available monsters in King of Tokyo 2nd edition. Gigazaur controls Tokyo City and Alienoid is trying to take it from him. King of Tokyo In King of … [Read more...] about King of Tokyo 2nd Edition Review – The Revised Monster Rampage

One of tabletop’s biggest miniatures games has a big shakeup today as Fantasy Flight Games announced a new edition that will tweak the core rules and add new force powers to the game’s pool of strategic options. The new edition will be backwards compatible with the previously released 58(!) ships in the game using a series of conversion kits. The most major change to the game’s rules seems to be the addition of Force powers, allowing force-sensitive pilots to alter the battlefield with new abilities.Faction identities in the game’s three groups have been strengthened, with some ships shifting from one to another—notably Boba Fett’s Slave I making the permanent move to the Scum and Villainy faction. The First Order and Resistance, from the more recent movies, will also be broken out into entirely distinct factions from the Galactic Empire and Rebel Alliance. Fantasy Flight Games also cites numerous refinements to the game’s “flow” … [Read more...] about X-Wing Miniatures Game 2nd edition is coming this fall